ST JOSEPH’S DELIGHT AS SCHOOL IS SELECTED FOR BLOOM 2017
ST JOSEPH’S Secondary School is in full bloom this week - thanks to a garden project depicting the town that is set to go worldwide.
Head of the Green Schools team Thomas Finnegan and Michael Traynor entered the school for this year’s Bloom flower festival and got the shock of their lives when their idea was accepted!
Now, with the help of a backup team, including teachers and caretaker Niall Leonard, they have to put a 3m x 2m garden together, featuring mini creations of Millmount, Laurence’s Gate and the Viaduct, along with a ‘ blue’ Boyne river, made up of Cambridge blue lobelia.
The “Drogheda on the Boyne” garden is one of 13 amateur gardens featured at Bloom, taking place in the Phoenix Park, Dublin for five days, June 1st – 5th, over the June bank holiday weekend.
The garden has been described as “A portrayal of a bright vibrant town where the image of yesterday is very different to the one of today. However, what remain are hidden gems of the past in a town they still reside in which is very different than the one before. Yet reside they do as the locals of today see the same marvellous structures as their ancestors once did before them. A testimony that the contemporary and the preceding can live in harmony”.
The entire garden will need 400 plants and the crew are seeking in flower Lobelia, lupins and ivy roots as well as box hedging and any community assistance would be appreciated. (Contact them at stjosephsbloom2017@gmail.com).
Teachers Karen Murphy and Tracey Murray are working on the ‘monuments’ with support from principal David Madden, vice principal Paul Savage and and Bernard Sharkey.